#/3°y     Huinmii 


ApA.  30 


Macon,  G-a.,  April  30,  1864,. 

[CIRCULAR.] 

1st.— The  manufacture  of  portfires  will  be  suspended  for  the  present,  there 
being  enough  on  hand  for  needful  purposes  for  some  time  to  come. 

2ud. — The  practice  of  packing  priming  tubes  (paper),  portfires,  and  slowmatch 
with  fixed  ammunition  will  henceforth  be  discontinued  until  further  orders.  In 
lieu  of  the  above,  friction  primers  alone  will  be  packed  with  the  ammunition. 

3rd. — The  fabrication  of  paper  priming  tubes  will  be  discontinued  from  the  date 
of  the  reception  of  this  circular,  except  at  Augusta  Arsenal,  and  at  that  estab- 
lishment not  more  than  500  per  month  will  be  made. 

4th. — Referring  to  circular  from  this  office  of  March  14th,  1864 — par.  6th — 
which  requires  the  tube  of  the  Girardey  percussion  fuze  to  be  brought  up  (by  wood 
or  paper)  to  the  form  and  dimensions  of  a  2  in.  paper  fuze,  it  is  to  be  noted  that  in 
case  shells  are  in  use  fitted  with  fuze-plugs  for  1  in.  or  4c  in.  fuzes  the  Girardey 
percussion  fuzes  to  be  supplied  with  such  shells  should  be  made  to  fit  these  plugs. 

J.  W.  MALLET,  Lt.  Col. 

Sup't  of  Laboratories. 
Approved  : 

J.  GORGAS,  Col. 

Chief  of  Ordnance, 

Richmond,  Va.,  May,  1864.  + 


Hollinger  Corp. 
pH  8.5 


